Poet Thomas Moore

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Sing, Sweet Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEAFAF GHGHICICGHGH JKJKLALADMDM

Sing sweet Harp oh sing to meA
Some song of ancient daysB
Whose sounds in this sad memoryA
Long buried dreams shall raiseB
Some lay that tells of vanish'd fameC
Whose light once round us shoneD
Of noble pride now turn'd to shameC
And hopes for ever goneE
Sing sad Harp thus sing to meA
Alike our doom is castF
Both lost to all but memoryA
We live but in the pastF
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How mournfully the midnight airG
Among thy chords doth sighH
As if it sought some echo thereG
Of voices long gone byH
Of chieftains now forgot who seem'dI
The foremost then in fameC
Of Bards who once immortal deem'dI
Now sleep without a nameC
In vain sad Harp the midnight airG
Among thy chords doth sighH
In vain it seeks an echo thereG
Of voices long gone byH
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Couldst thou but call those spirits roundJ
Who once in bower and hallK
Sate listening to thy magic soundJ
Now mute and mouldering allK
But no they would but wake to weepL
Their children's slaveryA
Then leave them in their dreamless sleepL
The dead at least are freeA
Hush hush sad Harp that dreary toneD
That knell of Freedom's dayM
Or listening to its death like moanD
Let me too die awayM

Thomas Moore



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